Understanding of financial analysis

This seminar brings together important areas of financial management, planning, and control: Financial Analysis, Planning, and Control; Setting & Controlling Budgets. It will help business professionals:

• Plan more effectively for the future
• Use the financial techniques of planning and control
• Improve performance from the use of the tools of financial analysis
• Link planning and budgeting with costing and performance measurement
• Master the skills of budgetary and cost control

The seminar provides delegates with the knowledge required to find better answers to questions such as:

• Which specific variables, relationships, and trends are likely to be helpful in analyzing problems?
• How reliable are available financial data, and how are uncertainty and risk likely to impact on the outcomes of decisions?
• In economic and financial analysis what are the implications and relative importance of cash flow as distinct from accounting profit?
• What limitations are inherent in financial data and the key financial statements, and how will these affect the financial analysis?
• How important are qualitative judgments in the context of decision-making?

and to focus on key issues such as:

• Understand strategic planning and budgeting.
• Link finance and operations for budgeting purposes and strategy execution
• Learn how to build a comprehensive performance measurement system
• Learn costing and budgeting terminology used in business
• Understand the importance of a well-defined costing and budgeting process
• Understand cost behavior more accurately
• Be able to perform and interpret variance analysis

• Finance managers and financial controllers
• Budgeting and planning professionals
• Financial analysts and business analysts
• Management accountants and cost accountants
• Senior accountants and finance executives
• Department managers involved in budgeting and performance management
• Professionals responsible for strategic planning and financial decision-making
• Internal auditors and performance management professionals
• Business owners and executives seeking stronger financial planning skills
• Professionals aiming to improve budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis capabilities